Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 232
I must follow," he cried; "it is not a sin, it cannot be, to follow beauty and joy.
Who acts: I, prince, blood · What happens: follow, cry, not be · To what, where: sin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prince, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | aux |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sin | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sin | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sin | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sin | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sin | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sin | det |
| 14 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 follow | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 follow | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 follow | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 follow | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 follow | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 follow | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 follow | mark |
| 22 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 follow | conj |
| 23 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 follow | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 joy | cc |
| 25 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beauty | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | must | I | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | blood | a sin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | can | blood | follow property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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